I have started to animate the scenes with the Librarian sat in his chair, which is the final remaining shots that involve the puppet. I tied his legs into the chair with the fishing wire that feeds through the bottom of the chair but I also needed to pin his chest to the back of the chair and his feet to the floor.

Today I shot the only walking scene that I needed to do where the puppet crossed from one side of the screen to the other in a straight line. I needed the camera angle to be straight on with just his lower body showing. As he is a tie down puppet I needed to angle the camera carefully so that it didn't show the tie down floor that the puppet was walking on but just the floor that was directly behind him, this took me about half a day to set up.

I scanned in an image of a walk cycle from Richard Williams 'animators survival kit' which I then rotoscoped into my work screen in Stop motion pro so that I had a rough guide to help me know how to move the puppets legs.

I spent most of the day setting up the shot for my first scene where the Librarian is up a ladder placing books back onto the shelf.
An initial problem that I came across was the height of the puppet in contrast to the bookshelf in the set up of this shot. The bookshelf needed to take up the whole height and width of the screen but I couldn't achieve this without bending the puppets knees so he would be in the right place for the shot. This caused difficulty because of the ladder and I was having to angle the body which didn't then look right on camera. I found a platform that was essentially a miniature animation table which I could tie down the bookcase whilst raising it slighlty higher so that the puppet would be at the right height without his knees having to be bent (see picture).

Once the shot was set up I wanted to do a few tests with the prototype to warm up my animation skills again. I ended up doing two tests: one shot on ones and the other on twos. I was extremely glad I did this as it has helped me realise what shots I might want to shot on one's (quicker movement e.g. a fast hand swipe) and what I might want to shot on two's (the majority of scenes including this one, it is more controlled and suits the Librarians character better.)